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CMO Update 25

A communication to all doctors from the Chief Medical Officer (February 2000)

  • Last modified date:
    24 September 2007
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    CMO Update 25

CMO's Update is a newsletter sent by the Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health to all doctors in England. It will incorporate some topics that might otherwise have required an individual letter, progress reports on earlier letters, and other information from the Department of Health that should be of interest to practising doctors.

Contents

  • New Home Energy Efficiency Scheme
  • Consultation on looked after children
  • Action on cataracts
  • Opencast coal mining and children's respiratory health
  • Information from the National Poisons Information Service
  • COT report on OPs
  • Section 36 of the NHS (Primary Care) Act 1997 and Local Development Schemes
  • Our Healthier Nation - website and database of practice (OHNiP)
  • Our Healthier Nation technical supplement
  • Confusing terminology
  • The NHS Organ Donor Register passes the 8 million mark
  • Memorandum on rabies prevention and control
  • What's new on the DH Website

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